This, of course, would be in addition to sending out postcards, letters, etc.The phone should start ringing very soon.

Try this example: You go to Zales and buy a simple engagement ring for $2000, take it home.

"these clients sold her wedding ring to get in to last mod 3 yrs ago and still lost the home" and they are divorcing now.  

This is a fairly dense, inner ring suburb, so they maintained the typical 1/2 mile radius, but utilized 12 months of sales data versus the typical 6 months used on single family.  

The 'monitored without your consent' hopefully refers to homeowner initiated stuff like Ring doorbells, but if the language doesn't make that clear it's worth asking.The 'protection period' is so that untrustworthy buyers don't get an agent to work hard for them for months, ditch the agreement or let it expire, then go on to buy a property the agent helped them find and/or investigate without the agent getting paid for their work.

You can set up stuff to help you manage remotely while you are there such as wireless door locks, ring camera, wifi thermostats, etc..  

You're probably looking at a Class D property which will be very challenging to manage and make money on.The critical question to ask the seller is how much is it going to cost to rehab it so it passes City inspections.Recommend you search BiggerPockets for our Deep Dive series on Metro Detroit Ring Cities and city of Detroit neighborhoods.

I've been told and it rings true, that you must understand what investors are looking for rather than getting a bunch of properties on contract and frantically trying to find a buying.

I'm partial to Metro Detroit where we'll see that both in the actual city and in many of the ring suburbs; however, while it isn't as commonplace as it used to be, there are still markets out there in a bunch of places across the country where it works. 

This is a company who has a robust customer service team for sales (they always pick up first ring but can't help) but for helping actual customers they have a ghost staff apparently.